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...Labor-notably their conviction that Britain should scrap its costly, prestigious' Hbomb arsenal in hopes of halting the spread of nuclear weapons. In the past, party officials have seriously discussed pooling forces to put up "Lib-Lab" candidates at the next election. However, Liberal Party Leader Jo Grimond last week took full advantage of the Socialists' disastrous disarray on Common Market membership. Pressing home his bluntest attacks yet on Labor, Grimond declared: "The Labor Party is losing its soul-just as the Liberals are gaining their feet...
Wedded to Work. If the Liberals do get back on their feet after more than 40 years in eclipse, it will be almost entirely through Grimond's leadership. A ruggedly handsome man with a wayward lock of grey hair, Grimond, 49, is not so much a policymaker as a popularizer with a flair for making the party's traditional championship of free enterprise and individual liberties seem timely to young citizens of Britain's welfare state. Grimond (pronounced Grimm-ond) is a tireless organizer who shuttles up to 80,000 miles a year between London, Liberal outposts...
Like Harold Macmillan, Grimond is a Scot who attended Eton and won a scholarship to Oxford's austere Balliol College -and, like the Prime Minister, he is wedded to his work. Grimond's wife Laura is the daughter of Lady Violet Bonham Carter, perennial high priestess of the Liberal Party, and herself the daughter of Lord Asquith, who in 1908 became Prime Minister in the party's last elected government. (Winston Churchill was his famed First Lord of the Admiralty...
...government. Gaitskell demanded Macmillan's resignation and an immediate general election, argued that Macmillan's purge of Chancellor of the Exchequer Selwyn Lloyd and 15 other Conservative ministers "was the most convincing confession of failure which could have been offered by the government." Liberal Party Leader Jo Grimond likened the Prime Minister's "all-round slaughter" to "the Borgias on one of their more unsavory evenings...
...business talent is lacking among them. The Conservative Daily Telegraph optimistically announced: "The government has a fresher and stronger look." Opposition leaders were derisive. Labor's Hugh Gaitskell called the Cabinet shake-up "a political massacre which can only be interpreted as a gigantic admission of failure." Joseph Grimond, chief of the renascent Liberals, declared: "After twelve years in office, it is too late for the Tories to try and put a new face on their administration...